Today I'm neither Angry nor Happy about....

[TANGODANCER]

Turn of the last century British flats have radiators? Who'd have thought it? Though unbled radiators do make such noises.

There are rumours that much older stately homes, castles and cathedrals have computers these day Monty. Shocking.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Turn of the last century British flats have radiators? Who'd have thought it?

Everywhere's got radiators these days. Last bastions of un-radiatorred places will be communal toilets, listed historic buildings, and Victorian back-to-backs with little 96 year olds who've lived there all their lives clinging on in squalid determination.

Gosh - it wasn't so long ago we North American visitors would die of hypothermia if we ran out of shillings.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Turn of the last century British flats have radiators? Who'd have thought it?

Everywhere's got radiators these days. Last bastions of un-radiatorred places will be communal toilets, listed historic buildings, and Victorian back-to-backs with little 96 year olds who've lived there all their lives clinging on in squalid determination.

Gosh - it wasn't so long ago we North American visitors would die of hypothermia if we ran out of shillings.

Showing your age there. We use Euros now.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Turn of the last century British flats have radiators? Who'd have thought it?

Everywhere's got radiators these days. Last bastions of un-radiatorred places will be communal toilets, listed historic buildings, and Victorian back-to-backs with little 96 year olds who've lived there all their lives clinging on in squalid determination.

Gosh - it wasn't so long ago we North American visitors would die of hypothermia if we ran out of shillings.

Showing your age there. We use Euros now.

That's meter inflation for you... and no one on here thinks of me as young - just younger than Tango and Dujon.

[bobo the clown]

Showing your age there. We use Euros now.

We do ?!?!?!

[Worthy4England]

Whilst we're on this, I don't feel quite as weird saying it..

Our little girl is seven weeks old and in the last 2/3 weeks has started to smile and generally seem more aware of her surroundings. Anyway, she keeps looking into the corner of the room and onto the stairs and chuckling and smiling at seemingly nothing. We have a lamp in the corner of the bedroom and whenever we're not using it, we switch it off on the wall.. However when we take her into the bedroom she looks over into the corner where this lamp is and it starts to feckin' glow and flicker like it's having a power surge!!.. It NEVER happens when I'm in there alone.. Only when we take Erica in.

Feckin' freaks me out.

Have you checked for any 6's underneath the hairline?

And can you often hear O Fortuna playing gently inside your head?

[Wandering Willy]

Just three 9's - he's alright.

[Worthy4England]

Just three 9's - he's alright.

Whew - that was a close one.

[truewhite15]

The news of Lucasfilm being purchased by Disney, and the announcement of a Star Wars: Episode 7.

I'm a bit of a Star Wars nut, but I don't know what to make of this. With all the established fiction out there, how much of it will be steamrollered by any new movies?

[boltonboris]

I'm intrigued to see what the films will be like. I heard they'd outlined "at least 3" new films.

Part of the deal was also for the purchase of the Indiana Jones franchise. I always thought they were shite though.

[bobo the clown]

The news of Lucasfilm being purchased by Disney, and the announcement of a Star Wars: Episode 7.

I'm a bit of a Star Wars nut, but I don't know what to make of this. With all the established fiction out there, how much of it will be steamrollered by any new movies?

More Jar-Jar Binks do you think ? Can't wait.

[Lord Kangana]

I hate the use of the word "franchise" in relation to films.

This is shitehawk speak for "crushing disappointment as you realise, yet again, there is no ending to this film because theres no money in that".

The bastards.

[TANGODANCER]

Turn of the last century British flats have radiators? Who'd have thought it? Though unbled radiators do make such noises.

Radiators always make me think of the miles of steam pipes that used to run round schools and churches. We used to line milk bottles up on them in bad weather to make it drinkable and school was absolutely the best place to be in snow and ice weather.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Turn of the last century British flats have radiators? Who'd have thought it? Though unbled radiators do make such noises.

Radiators always make me think of the miles of steam pipes that used to run round schools and churches. We used to line milk bottles up on them in bad weather to make it drinkable and school was absolutely the best place to be in snow and ice weather.

Do school kids still get their half pint of milk a day at school?

[TANGODANCER]

Turn of the last century British flats have radiators? Who'd have thought it? Though unbled radiators do make such noises.

Radiators always make me think of the miles of steam pipes that used to run round schools and churches. We used to line milk bottles up on them in bad weather to make it drinkable and school was absolutely the best place to be in snow and ice weather.

Do school kids still get their half pint of milk a day at school?

Don't know. I left in 1953.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Turn of the last century British flats have radiators? Who'd have thought it? Though unbled radiators do make such noises.

Radiators always make me think of the miles of steam pipes that used to run round schools and churches. We used to line milk bottles up on them in bad weather to make it drinkable and school was absolutely the best place to be in snow and ice weather.

Do school kids still get their half pint of milk a day at school?

Don't know. I left in 1953.

This made me curious - the act is still in effect but under threat.

Critics of the United Kingdom's school milk program are becoming more vocal, challenging the widespread national assumption that drinking milk is good for children.

"From Winston Churchill's wartime order to keep the milk flowing, which was formalized under the 1946 School Milk Act ... the idea that it is natural, healthy and an essential part of a good diet has been unchallenged," writes Andrew Marszal in The Telegraph.

That consensus is wavering. Recently, junior health minister Anne Milton suggested that the national program to provide free milk for children under five should abolished. And research continues to emerge that milk is neither an essential nor healthy part of the human diet.

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So much for drinka pinta milka day.

[Dujon]

Ah, the milk for schools programme still makes me chuckle. For half the year in Bolton the milk would freeze in the crated bottles left outside pending use. In Australia for half the year the milk would curdle whilst left outside in the heat. Both situations left the milk useless for consumption purposes. Yuk! I would imagine though that the dairy industry rubbed its collective hands in glee at such a steady and increasing customer base.

I can't remember when it was abolished here, but it's a good long time ago.

The article referenced in your quote, Monty, made me pause and think something along the lines of 'what is this mob on about':

Yet even organic milk has more than 30 proteins that can produce adverse reactions in the body, such that 7.5 percent of British children suffer from dairy allergies. Milk may also produce eczema, constipation, lingering ear infections and frequent colds. In addition, as many as 75 percent of adults may be lactose intolerant.

[TANGODANCER]

Ah, the milk for schools programme still makes me chuckle. For half the year in Bolton the milk would freeze in the crated bottles left outside pending use. In Australia for half the year the milk would curdle whilst left outside in the heat. Both situations left the milk useless for consumption purposes. Yuk! I would imagine though that the dairy industry rubbed its collective hands in glee at such a steady and increasing customer base.

I can't remember when it was abolished here, but it's a good long time ago.

The article referenced in your quote, Monty, made me pause and think something along the lines of 'what is this mob on about':

Yet even organic milk has more than 30 proteins that can produce adverse reactions in the body, such that 7.5 percent of British children suffer from dairy allergies. Milk may also produce eczema, constipation, lingering ear infections and frequent colds. In addition, as many as 75 percent of adults may be lactose intolerant.

Just another paragraph to add to the "How did we survive?" document, Dujon.

[Dujon]

There are times, TANGO, when I think that your 'signature' (although in a different context) is right.

I have lost count of the numbers of conflicting 'expert' advice given out over the last couple of decades; eggs are bad for you and then they are not, red meat is anathema to the human body and then it's not, good fats and bad fats seem to change places more often than chess pieces. Don't get me started on how to rear a child. Aaarghh!

[TANGODANCER]

There are times, TANGO, when I think that your 'signature' (although in a different context) is right.

It's actually just a line from a favourite song Dujon, but yes it applies to quite a lot. I'm not in the "wise men" category though.